University of CO - Denver - Scholarship Opportunities
Applications are now being accepted for scholarship funding from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to study in the University of Colorado Denver's healthcare informatics graduate program. This funding comes from the ONC's University-Based Training Program, and is part of their Health IT Workforce Development Program that aims to rapidly expand the workforce to adopt meaningful use of electronic health records. This means that UCD has tuition scholarships for 100 students in our Graduate Certificate program and 12 students in our Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics (MS) program over the next three years. The latter will also receive a stipend and student health insurance while enrolled in the program. Enrollment for both programs will begin in Fall 2010.
Health Information Technology (HIT) has been identified as one of the highest growth industries by the U.S. Department of Labor. This means that the Federal Government is providing tuition funding to support progression in career pathways to develop the health information workforce that can facilitate the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and meaningful health information exchange (HIE).
Each certificate program is one year in length and requires five 3-credit courses. Applicants must attend full-time which translates into two courses in the fall and spring semester and one course in the summer.
The first certificate, Executive Leadership in Health Information Technology, is targeted to those health care and public health professionals with managerial experience that will lead the deployment and use of health IT to achieve transformational improvements in quality, safety and outcomes.
The second Certificate, Health Information Management and Exchange Specialist, will prepare health care professionals to support the collection, management, retrieval, exchange, and/or analysis of information in electronic form, in health care and public health organizations.
The final certificate, Certificate of Health Information Technology, is targeted toward MS/MBA graduates with a health administration or information systems focus.
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ColoradoHITECH
We are particularly interested in providing these educational opportunities for health care professionals that work in critical access or disproportionate share hospitals, federally funded rural clinic, community health center.
